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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

can confirm that arena mexico is the best place in the world to see live professional wrestling

will ospreay standing in the corner of the arena mexico ring pointing out at an exuberant crowd

Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

the melodrama of small guy's big heart beating large guy's casual cruelty was the perfect medium for a genuine story of earning career recognition after chasing it for literal decades I haven't even kept up with Dragongate for a year and this moved me deeply. pro wrestling is good, DG time forever

Kzy sitting down in the middle of the Kobe World ring, patting his newly won Dream Gate belt, eyes shut, sobbing in joy.

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Palette Swap @paletteswap.site · 04/07/2026

Perennial eating contest champion Joey Chestnut took his talents to the Mushroom Kingdom and once again emerged victorious. paletteswap.site/dif...

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

sandman standing on my chair and showering me and @lasagnaforone.bsky.social in beer will forever be one of my favorite memories as a wrestling fan

my face in the foreground, sandman immediately behind me with a budweiser in one hand and a lit cigarette in the other

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

stephen king’s fourth dark tower book follows up about 700 pages of meticulous, plodding exposition with 200 pages of ridiculousness that could only come from the mind of a madman. I didn’t enjoy the experience of reading most of the book. yet by the end I loved it

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Palette Swap @paletteswap.site · 09/02/2026

A man with days left to live admitted that he regrets not spending more time memorizing complex boss battle attack patterns. paletteswap.site/dif...

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

proud of vegas for the “fuck ICE” chants for big brody

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

it unironically rules that the new jujutsu kaisen episode dedicates eighteen interrupted minutes to detailed explanations of nonsensical bullshit

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Palette Swap @paletteswap.site · 18/12/2025

A dedicated RPG player started their vacation to a popular California tourist destination in the only way they knew how. paletteswap.site/dif...

A person taking photos on vacation.
HEADLINE: JRPG Fan Kicks Off Vacation by Talking to Everyone in Town.

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

yes I am watching the game awards just to get mad at it, yes it is making me mad, yes this is good for my mental health

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

there’s more game left and I’m afraid it’s gonna get even harder, but for now, finishing this level with all collectibles is in my all-time video game achievement hall of fame Windswept continuously makes me feel like a gamer god, incredibly cool game

a screenshot of the fourth Lamp’s Shade level on the Windswept world map showing I finished it with all collectibles

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Palette Swap @paletteswap.site · 10/12/2025

In an unprecedented last-second addition, five games will be competing in the new Twinkliest Ice Level Music category. paletteswap.site/dif...

The Game Awards statue in front of a snowy video game level.
HEADLINE: The Game Awards Adds Category for Twinkliest Ice Level Music.

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

man, lebron james has me teary eyed. after the game, mike trudell asked rui about his game-winner, and it sounded like he was failing to find words to describe magic. what bron did was exactly that

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

the only wrestler I like more than willow nightingale is deathmatch willow nightingale

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

everyone deserves to experience a love like my cat has for his amazon basics cat scratcher - indoor classic single cat & kittens scratching post, medium (31.5"H) - grey

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

can’t remember the last time a game got my adrenaline pumping like lakers/spurs. as silly as it was thrilling. good goddamn basketball

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

naz reid just hit ayton with a slingblade

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Palette Swap @paletteswap.site · 14/10/2025

Sony has officially announced that PlayStation 6 will run PlayStation 4 games even better than on PlayStation 5. paletteswap.site/dif...

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Chob @chob316.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

#AEWDynamite help.hbomax.com/us/Feedback/

HBO Max feedback form. "Do not run any fucking ICE ads during Dynamite."

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

there's not much that hits quite like clive barker's understanding of the metaphysical, coupled with his interest in deep depravity. I really loved this passage near the end of "the great and secret show," making a case for the reality of the immaterial

text that reads: "have given the twentieth century's answer to that question. There was no justice because justice was a human construct and had no place in a system of matter. But mind was in matter, always. That was the revelation of Quiddity. The sea was the crossroads, and from it all possibilities sprang. Before everything, Quiddity. Before life, the dream of life. Before the things solid, the solid thing dreamt. And mind, dreaming or awake, new justice, which was therefore as natural as matter, its absence in any exchange deserving of more than a fatalistic shrug. It merited a howl of outrage; and a passionate pursuit of why. If she wished"

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

favorite TV performance of the year handily goes to Terrence Mann as Brother Dusk in this season of Foundation. from pathetic old man to legendarily sinister villain

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Palette Swap @paletteswap.site · 11/09/2025

A lost and disoriented scuba diver recently experienced a kind of miracle under the sea just when it seemed to be game over for him. paletteswap.site/dif...

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

episode 6 of Lexx casually introduces a straight up N64 controller as some sort of sci-fi device. what a legendary show

a low-quality screengrab of a hand holding a gray N64 controller with its control stick removed and a big red light attached to its upper center area

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Palette Swap @paletteswap.site · 11/08/2025

A recent graduate of Harvard Law changed her career trajectory after looking up the Massachusetts Bar Exam on HowLongToBeat. paletteswap.site/dif...

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

the new episode of dandadan features marty friedman leading a pretty pitch-perfect impression of x japan, if that's something you're into

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

you can either die a punk rocker or live long enough to become a wilco guy

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

should I become the first person in world history to reply start to resubscribe

I received a solicitation text asking me to sign a petition. I replied “end” to unsubscribe from these texts. I was told I was successfully unsubscribed, but was prompted to reply start to resubscribe. this is a screenshot of that text exchange

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Palette Swap @paletteswap.site · 15/07/2025

One indie developer is trying to explain how his finances are still in early access. paletteswap.site/dif...

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I’m confident the number of people who have checked out a wrestling podcast because they saw a fan holding a sign for it on TV is exactly zero

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I love to go “I can’t believe they just did that!!” about a speedrunning trick I learned about a couple seconds prior

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

AEW should open every single show with this dance MxM Collection is doing in Japan. I'm obsessed

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

if you’re not actually named Sam then I’m sorry to say you’re not getting the true Death Stranding experience

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

watching a commercial-less stream of tonight’s finals game. cannot stress how unhinged the pacers arena is first break, fans were waving kroger rewards cards. second break, “the pacemates” danced a routine to lose yourself. thing is, they had already played lose yourself once during player intros

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Andy @andy.wrestlejoy.com · 19/06/2025

Another pic of Brody King

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

tyrese haliburton’s playoff run is the most I’ve enjoyed watching a non-laker in as long as I can remember

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

oh boy, mao versus el desperado was pro wrestling done just the way I like it. equally funny and brutal, before culminating in a classic unstoppable force/immovable object-style struggle. they delivered perfectly on the premise of mao bringing his fucked up wrestling style to new japan

el desperado with a pissed off face in the foreground, mao lurking in the background with his fist held outward post-punch

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

the dating parts of the new episode of the rehearsal made me feel anxiety that I've felt from watching like, gaspar noe's climax. nathan fielder is doing new french extremity on his comedy show

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

the AEW production team clearly walked all over this venue and had a bunch of cool ideas lol

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

on a whim I decided to read hamlet, and just how much hamlet hates dumbass polonius is really making me laugh. all the teachers insisting shakespeare is funny were right, actually

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

basketball is wild because even though I’ve watched 100s of games from at least the last 6 seasons, when they say things like “the weak side” it might as well be a foreign language

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

this movie is really great, anyone interested in zelda, speedrunning, and/or online identity might wanna check it out!

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

anxiety is so fucked up. why am I all the sudden feeling viscerally embarrassed by an emoji I sent in response to a post about a band shirt I thought was cool on instagram 7-8 years ago?

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

according to @lasagnaforone.bsky.social the death riders “are gonna do a january 6 whenever they lose”

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

when mania week was in LA, I went to 3 shows. they were great but afterword I regretted not taking full advantage of just how much wrestling was in town now I’m lucky enough to live in the city hosting mania week again. I’m going to 6 shows between today and Sat. will thread thoughts/pics/etc here!

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

between the wrestling, the crowd, the featured talent, and even the venue, the vibes of this dynamite are pretty damn feeling-restoring

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

my first contribution to @paletteswap.site is here! how much the last of us is too much the last of us?

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

speed is playing a straight up hardcore show at coachella. they got on a big stage and instead of compromising they stuck to what they do best, and still made it accessible to a new crowd. cool as hell

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

rare footage of swerve strickland holding god’s iphone

swerve strickland standing on second rope in corner of FSW wrestling ring, microphone in right hand and an incandescent yellow rectangle appearing above his outstretched left hand

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Sam Skopp @eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

caster in a ben simmons jersey is diabolical

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